Screening: Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob by Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley
Introduction by Tanya Zimbardo
Graduate Lecture Series co-presentation with San Francisco Cinematheque
General Admission: $10
Admission is FREE to Cinematheque members and to SFAI’s students, faculty, and staff (with ID)
A personal tribute to artist friendship, this 1971 filmic collaboration reflects on a moment in time in the lives and careers of Bay Area legends William Allan, William Geis, Robert Hudson, Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley. These painters, sculptors and filmmakers and their circle associated with Funk art enjoyed a certain freedom on the West Coast to forge their own territory and forms of expression. Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley were drawn to documenting the spirit of how this close-knit group, affiliated with SFAI as students and faculty, were “working together, dreaming together, and had this unusual and interesting rapport." (Nelson)
Five Artists offers a collective portrait of the everyday life of these artists and their families in Marin County. Alternating between color and black-and-white footage, Nelson and Wiley interweave non-synchronous commentary by the artists and their acquaintances. (Tanya Zimbardo)
“Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob,“1971, by Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley; 70 minutes
Credit: Courtesy of Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley
